Compressed supersymmetry and natural neutralino dark matter from top squark-mediated annihilation to top quarks

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dc.creatorMartin, Stephen P.
dc.date2007-03-08
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dc.descriptionThe parameters of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model appear to require uncomfortably precise adjustment in order to reconcile the electroweak symmetry breaking scale with the lower mass limits on a neutral Higgs scalar boson. This problem can be significantly ameliorated in models with a running gluino mass parameter that is smaller than the wino mass near the scale of unification of gauge couplings. A "compressed" superpartner mass spectrum results; compared to models with unified gaugino masses, the ratios of the squark and gluino masses to the lightest superpartner mass are reduced. I argue that in this scenario the annihilation of bino-like neutralino pairs to top-antitop quark pairs through top squark exchange can most naturally play the crucial role in ensuring that the thermal relic dark matter density is not too large, with only a small role played by coannihilations. The lightest superpartner mass must then exceed the top quark mass, and the lighter top squark cannot decay to a top quark. These conditions have important implications for collider searches.
dc.description18 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0703097
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0703097
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D75:115005,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.75.115005
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/194690
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleCompressed supersymmetry and natural neutralino dark matter from top squark-mediated annihilation to top quarks
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